Jay MacLarty has been an entrepreneur since the age of twenty-one. Having put together a nationwide chain of restaurants and nightclubs before the age of thirty, he turned his attention to retail and the organizational business, where he created a software company to support his design concepts. In his spare time he created one of the first computerized handicapping programs for Thoroughbred racing. Following his sojourn into racing, he turned his attention to politics and spent nearly a year working for a Presidential campaign.